Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Masters, Mary C.B. November 16, 1926
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Daily Local News, November 18, 1926 Coatesville Times November
Daily Local News
November 18, 1926
Masters- In Chester County Hospital, on Nov. 16, Mary C.B., wife of Herbert W. 
Masters and daughter of the late Mary D and Elias Bair.  Funeral strictly 
private from the Octorara Presbyterian Church on Friday, Nov. 19, at 2 o’clock 
p.m. Interment in adjoining cemetery.

Coatesville Times
November 1926
Mrs. Mary Masters, 45 years old, wife of Herbert W. Masters, died at the 
Chester County Hospital, West Chester, at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, as 
the result of burns sustained when a gas oven exploded in the kitchen of her 
home at Paoli, an hour and a half previous to her death.

Mrs. Masters was alone in the house when the accident occurred, hence no one 
knows the exact cause of the explosion.  It is surmised, however, that she 
waited to long after turning on the gas before applying the light.  This gave 
the oven an oportunity to fill with gas and when lighted it exploded.

The explosion was of such force that it blew the living room and dining room 
doors  from their hinges, blew the kitchen window panes all over the house.

Enveloped in flames Mrs. Masters staggered to the living room window and called 
for help.  When the neighbors reached her side all he clothing was burned from 
her body.  Casper Tollinger, 19 years old, and Paul C Kirk were the first to 
respond to Mrs. Masters’ screams for help.  They wrapped a rug around her body, 
extinguishing the fire.

After carrying the woman to a place of safety, the two men fought the flames 
and held them in check until the arrival of the Paoli Fire Company.  A stiff 
battle followed, the firemen finally succeeded in subduing the blaze.  
Considerable damage was done to the rooms on the first floor.

None of Paoli’s doctors being at home, neighbors summoned a Malvern physician, 
who ordered Mrs. Masters removed to the hospital at West Chester.  The severe 
pain rendered her unconscious and she remained so until her death.

The dead woman’s two children, Herbert W. Jr., and Catherine, went immediately 
to the hospital, on being notified of the fatal mishap and arrived there a 
short time before she died. The son attended school at Westtown, while the 
daughter is a pupil of the Tredyffrin-Easttown High School at Berwyn.

Mrs. Masters’ husband, who is employed as an adjuster by a Philadelphia 
Insurance Company, was on a business trip to the western part of the State.  
Word of his wife’s tragic death reached him in Carlisle.

The tragic death of Mrs. Masters brought sorrow to many hearts in this city, 
where the Masters were so well known, and where her husband was in the 
insurance business for several years.  Mrs. Masters as the daughter of the late 
Elias Bair, of Sadsburyville, a former Clerk of the Courts.


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